DùnyA“Açış (dance songs from the country-1)” fromDünya Size Güller Bize(Dünya 2009)—these next 3 selections are really part of a single piece. The instrument here is the çeng - a wire-strung harp of great antiquity (carvings of it can be seen on Assyrian temple walls). The Turks were the last to use it - maily for classical music of th

Cengiz Selimoğlu“Gaybana Sevdaluk” fromOrtanca(Senseç Müzik 2009)—with this cut we start our music from the Black Sea coast. These singers are Turkish and Laz speakers. Laz is a Georgian - related language, but the Laz live almost exclusively on the Black Sea coast.